Advanced computer graphics : economics, techniques, and applications

1 Fundamental Issues Facing Computer Graphics.- The Lessons of the 60's.- Fundamental Problems Facing the Growth of Man/Computer Graphics.- Aspects of Interactive Graphic Systems.- Some Comments on Supporting Multiple Interactive Graphic Consoles in a Productive Environment.- Digital Television: a low cost approach to multi-terminal graphics.- 2 Computer Aided Design - General Applications.- An interactive Graphical System using Computers linked by Voice Grade Line.- Conversational Design of Stochastic Service Systems from a Graphical Terminal.- Anatomy of an interactive Graphics Display Project: an Engineering Tool.- Computer Graphics in the Dynamic Analysis of Mechanical Networks.- Structural Operational Data Sets from Arbitrarily Arranged Computer Graphic Symbols.- A CAD approach to Blanking Die and Technology Design.- Computer-Aided design at McDonnell-Douglas.- Graphics Oriented Fractionator Analysis and Simulation Tool (GOFAST).- A Display System for Processing Engineering Drawings.- 3 Electronic Design Applications.- A Graphic Language for Describing and Manipulating two-dimensional patterns.- Interactive Graphical Input for Circuit Analysis.- Practical Layout of Printed Circuit Boards using Interactive Graphics.- Computer Graphics for integrated Circuit Design.- 4 Civil Engineering Applications of Computer Graphics.- Perspective Views and Computer Animation in Highway Engineering.- The use of Interactive Computer Graphics in Soil Engineering Analysis and Design.- Structural Design Using Interactive Graphics.- Computer Representation Display and Interrogation of Structural Building Data.- Interactive Use of the Light-Pen in finite Element Limit Load Analysis.- Computographical Description of the Dynamics of a Turbulence Model.- 5 Architectural Applications.- Computer Aided Architectural Design.- A Generalised Program for Transforming Relationship Values into Plan Layouts.- An Associative Data Structure to Describe Building Component Assemblies.- The Computer as an aid for the Architect.- Computer Graphics System for School Design.- Computer Graphics in Architecture.- The Craft Program Improvements and Proposed Improvements.- Building Design by Computer Graphics.- 6 Nuclear and Space Science Applications.- The application of Computer Generated Graphs and Diagrams to the Development of Advanced Nuclear Reactors.- A Laboratory for Interactive Programming, Processing and Display in Space Science.- 7 Pattern Recognition Developments.- Design of an Experimental Laboratory for Pattern Recognition and Signal Processing.- Display Assisted Design of Sequential Decision Logic for Pattern Recognition.- Interactive Signal Processing.- 8 Text Processing with On-Line Visual Display.- A demonstration of magazine page layout using a graphic display terminal.- Graphic Editing of Structured Text.- On-Line text editing using visual display.- 9 Computer Generated Animation.- Generating Computer Animated Movies from a Graphic Console.- Production of Computer Animated Films from a Remote Storage Tube Terminal.- 10 Developments in Display Systems.- Project Merlin: A Graphics Operating System.- On the Application of Graph Theory to Computer Data Structures.- Design of Software and Formats for Interactive Graphics Support.- Software Capabilities of the Adage Graphics Terminals.- Storage Tube Graphics-a Comparison of Terminals.- Microcoded Multiprogramming Display Control Unit.- An Interactive Graph Theory System.- Development and Production of Design Charts Using a Digital Plotter.- 11 Graphic Languages.- A Fortran package for Interactive Graphics.- Visplay, the C.S.I.R.O. Graphical Fortran System.- Software for Satellite Graphics.- Optimum Systems Design of Computer Driven Graphics Terminals.- TDD-An Interactive Three Dimensional Drawing Program for Graphical Display and Lightpen.- Languages for Graphic Attention-Handling.- 12 Computer-generated Geometric Shapes.- Interrogation Techniques for Parametric Surfaces.- Analysis of an Efficient Homogeneous Tensor Representation of Surfaces for Computer Display.- On Linear Differences Curves.- Interactive Surface Design.- The use of Interactive Graphics for the Preliminary design of a Ship's Hull.- Some Commercially Available Computer Graphics Systems.